Spinning bait



Dec. 16, l924- 1,519,174

A. A. TOMLIN SPINNING BAIT Filed Mayfl, 192.3

5 4f A nllmll' INVENTDE- Patented Dec. 16, 1924.

UNITED STATES ALFRED ALBERT TOMLIN, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

` SPINNING BAIT.

Application filed May 4, 19231. Serial No. 636,575.

T o all whom t may concern Be it known that I, ALFRED A. ToMLIN, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, Province ofOntario, Canada, a sub- 5 ject of the King of Great Britain, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spinning Baits, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to baits used for fishing and my object is to provide a bait of simple design, that will spin lwhile drawn slowly through the water and will cause no disturbance in the latter, that will present a fish-likev shape while swimming, and is adapted to cause a number of light reflections at each revolution whereby the fish will be better attracted thereto.

I attain my object by means of the constructions hereinafter described and Aillustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Fig. 1 is bait showing thereto; l

Fig. 2 a side elevation of the bait;

Fig. 3 a front end view of the same;

Fig. 4 a plan view of the body portion blank; and

Fig. 5 a side elevation of the cut blank for forming the fins.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

The body portion 1 of the bait is formed with a pair of tail portions 2 which are curled or bent in opposite directions to one another so that the bait will have a tendency to spin when drawn thro-ugh the water. The hooks 3 are suitably connected to the rear end of the body portion 1. It will be noted that the latter is flat except for the tails 2.

The object of a spinningbait is to so attract the sh that it will strike the bait whether hungry or not. The so called spinning baits now on the market have to be drawn quickly through the water to cause them to spin and when drawn slowly through the water they fail to rotate and merely wobble or flop about in the water. These baits have bodies of minnow shape or are a plan view of my improved the hooks and swivel attached concavo-convex in cross-section with oppo` sitely bent tail portions and fins which tend to spin the baits but even if the latter happened, hardly any attraction would be caused.

To overcome the above diiiiculties, I provide the body portion 1 with the fins 4 eX- tendin longltudinally of the body and substantia ly normal to the surface of each side thereof. These fins are formed from a strip of sheet metal having a slot 5 formed therein to separate the rear ends of the fins, which ends are curved rearwardly i-n opposite directions relative to the median line of the body ortion 1 (see Figs. 1 and 3) and are suit-ab y secured to the latter. The rear ends of the fins are spaced apart attheir extremities and the latter are terminated adjacent the downward curvature of the tail portions 2. The convex sides of the curved fins 4 are directed towards the median line of the body portion l. The body portion is of triangular configuration and tapers from the rear end towards the forward end which is preferably notched at 6 to receive the forward end of the integral fins 4. These fins are curved in a fore and aft direction so that a side elevation of the fins forms the outline of a fish. From the above description it is obvious that when the bait is pulled through the water, the latter will re-act against the rearwardly curved fins 4 to spin the bait.

The tail portions 2 lie across the paths of the water passing along the fins, so that the water passing out of contact with each fin will be directed over the adjacent tail portion to tend to form a vacuum and thus reduce the pressure against the rear sides lof the tail to facilitate the spinning. of the ait.

tThe body portion 1 lies between the two sets of fins and tails to cut through the water so that different paths or portions of water act against the fins and the tails located at opposite sides of the body portion, the latter thus steadying the bait so that the axis of rotation is along the median dine of the body portion. This arrangement ensures the bait spinning when drawn slowly through the water and with no disturbance, sufficient to form bubbles, in the water.

To attract the attention of a fish the bait is formed of sutablevmaterial having light refiecting surfaces so that, as the bait revolves in they water, light is reflected from the sides or surfaces of the bait, and thus cause a series of flashes at each revolution. With my construction of bait having the' plate forming the body portion 1 and the plate forming the lins 4 intersecting one another substantially at right angles, the surfaces of the fins 4: are separated by the transverse body portion 1 and the surfaces' ofthe latter are separated bythe said fins, lthe bait thus having eight reflecting surfaces each ada t'ed to cause a'lash at each revolutionof t 1e bait.

What I claim as m invention is 1. A spinning bait aving a. substantially lflat bod Ilportion f rovided with oppositely' bent tai portions ormed at the rear end of the said body portion; and a fin located at each side of the body portion and extendto the surface of the said iatbody portion for their entire length. l

3. A bait constructed asset forth in claim and have their convex sides directed 1 in which the lins are curved rearwardclg towar the median line of the body portion.

AL. A'spinning bait having a substantially flat b ody portion .of substantially triangular configuration andtapering from its rear end 'towards its forward end and provided with oppositely bent tail portions spaced .apart and formed at the rear end of the said body portion; and a fin located at each side of the bod portion and extending longitudinally tlereof and substantially normal to the surface of the said flat body portion,-

the fins extending rearwardly in opposite directions relative to the-median line o f the body portion and their rear ends spaced apart at their extremities.

. Signed at Toronto, Canada, this 13 day of March, 1923.

ALFRED ALBERT TOMLIN. 

